Private Finished Did You Happen to Notice All the Weirdness?

Vladimir puttered around the kitchen. He was extremely glad the week was over. Since the sudden appearance of his old Alma Mater, Vladimir had not only been swamped with work, he had to deal with the fact that a very important part of his past - or what he had thought was his past - was all a lie. And the sudden and constant barrage of forgotten memories often left him feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and needing to release that tension more often than before... thankfully, Kon was there to help him through that.

"I got you a quarter pound of armadillo meat," Vladimir told Konpeito as he made them dinner, pretty sure it might be one of the species he had not tried yet. "Though I'm not too sure how you want it done?" he added as he seasoned his own meat which was just a normal ribeye that had been imported from the UK. Vladimir was not a huge fan of steaks made from the meat grown on the island.

"Oh, I was going to ask," he continued, suddenly remembering the three vampires who had come in that day complaining that their magical abilities were acting strange., and the demon-born patient that came in worried because it seemed like they were being summoned more easily.

"Have you noticed anything strange lately? Like stranger than normal?¨he added, wondering if it was just him, or if there was something more going on that he had not heard about. Vlad had heard his patients whispering about charms failing and all that, but it seemed like it was more than that.

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"Medium rare, just how you like it," Vladimir said as he set a plate down before Kon with the armadillo and a few sides he knew Kon liked and could eat.

"Unfortunately, I know just how you feel... Every day there seems to be something else," Vlad said as he took a seat at the table and gave Kon a sympathetic look. His boyfriend looked like Vlad felt - worn out, and in need of something to lift his spirits.

"And I am not surprised to hear that magic is surging... It'd explain a lot of what is happening," he said as he cut into a baked potato.

"In fact, we did get an official notice about the charms. Too bad it was the very same day a group of students was rushed into emergency. It turns out a good number of their charms failed just as they were getting on a bus to go to a soccer match," Vladimir said with a shake of his head at the memory.

Taking a bit of his food, Vladimir nodded as Kon spoke.

"It was hard, and those kids are going to have a hard time trusting another human charm after this," Vladimir stated. He could easily guess that phycological damage of something like that.

"No, you're fine. After what happened with the DCA, I was almost going to suggest getting away from here for a while," he confessed as he looked at Kon, and smiled a little when he noticed his colors starting to slowly appear once again.

Vladimir just shook his head. "It would not be running away so much as taking a moment to myself ... or ourselves," he corrected himself as he looked across the table at Kon, a slightly exhausted look on his face.

"This whole thing with the DCA has left me feeling ...weirdly unsettled. Every day, I wake up and remember something else, and it often feels like I have lived two lives and both are real, but at the same time not," he admitted with a sigh as he sat back in his seat.

"For twelve years, I thought I had gone to Starlight, graduated from there, and that all my colleagues and friends were from there," he said darkly.

"And then I wake up one morning and everything I thought I knew wasn't what it seemed," Vladimir said, once again feeling slightly frustrated that he had forgotten about his past. He knew that it was due to some kind of magic, but that illogical part of his being still insisted that he should have somehow known.

Vladimir didn't say anything as Kon talked about the others like him. He didn't have to, he knew exactly what they felt, and agreed wholeheartedly. It was awful, and unnerving - all of it. And Vladimir admittedly did not know how to deal with it at times.

"No, no I haven't," he confessed as he picked at his food. "It's not something I really ever considered doing," he told Kon, being open and honest with him.

"And it's not a bad idea, but I am not sure if it will even work..." he said with a sigh. "I get so overwhelmed. It's like a floodgate has opened up and it's not just one or two memories at a time... it's five or six, sometimes more," he told Konpeito.